Resolving a near full disk partition in SSIM
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Issue/Introduction
Your disk/partition is at 80+ % full and you don't want it to fill up
Resolution
Here is an _example_ of how to do the procedure. Note the files and or locations may be different.
[check what file systems are different than / ]
[[email protected] logs]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 20G 16G 3.6G 82% /
tmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 97M 32M 61M 34% /boot
/dev/sda9 12G 2.4G 8.9G 22% /dbsesa
/dev/sda10 50G 976M 49G 2% /eventarchive
/dev/sda11 13G 201M 13G 2% /eventdata
[check what is the biggest offender in terms of taking space]
[[email protected] ~]# du -sh /*
8.7M /bin
26M /boot
2.7G /dblog
2.3G /dbsesa
184K /dev
45M /etc
937M /eventarchive
168M /eventdata
160K /home
15M /initramfs-2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64.img
15M /initramfs-2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64.img.b4dmp
138M /lib
24M /lib64
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
11G /opt <----- here is the biggest on /
du: cannot access `/proc/23494/task/23494/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/23494/task/23494/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/23494/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/23494/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
0 /proc
60K /root
34M /sbin
4.0K /selinux
4.0K /srv
0 /sys
636K /tmp
1.1G /usr
834M /var
[As /opt is the biggest offender on the / partition, go there and repeat the process ]
[[email protected] ~]# cd /opt/
[[email protected] opt]# du -sh *
352M ibm
1.1G IBM
0 IBMIHS
0 jdk
361M pubscribe
8.3G Symantec <----- here is the biggest
[ continuing to dive into the file system to find the biggest files ]
[[email protected] opt]# cd Symantec/
[[email protected] Symantec]# du -sh *
1.4G dim
4.0K els
12K Licenses
2.6M LiveUpdate
6.2G sesa <----- here is the biggest
700M simserver
996K Tools
3.4M updates
[ continuing to dive into the file system to find the biggest files ]
[[email protected] Symantec]# cd sesa/
[[email protected] sesa]# du -sh *
20K 2.5
185M Agent
176K bin
849M eventservice
4.0K FailsafeDataStoreCache.xml
4.0K FailsafeDirectoryCache.xml
156M httpd
0 jdk
8.0K keydb
2.4M lib
4.2G logs <----- here is the biggest
808M servletengine
96K SESAapp.ico
224K SesaInstall.log
8.0K SESAManagerConnectionConfig.xml
4.0K ses_common.xml
4.0K Tools
8.0K var
1.9M vmg0-ssim48-s1
[ continuing to dive into the filesystem to find the biggest files ]
[[email protected] sesa]# cd logs/
[[email protected] logs]# du -sh *
4.0G huge_test_file <<---- Here is the file(s) to remove
1.7M eventservice.log
11M eventservice.log.1
11M eventservice.log.10
11M eventservice.log.2
11M eventservice.log.3
11M eventservice.log.4
11M eventservice.log.5
11M eventservice.log.6
11M eventservice.log.7
11M eventservice.log.8
11M eventservice.log.9
11M manager.log
26M manager.log.1
26M manager.log.2
26M manager.log.3
26M manager.log.4
26M manager.log.5
26M manager.log.6
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